Start the New Year right!

Dr. Michael B. McCall

KCTCS is committed to the health and well-being of its students, faculty and staff. We want to help you on a path toward tobacco-free wellness by offering a number of resources for you to become and stay tobacco-free.

Kentucky Community and Technical College System (KCTCS) students who wish to transfer their credits or associate degree to a four-year institution will have the opportunity to connect with those institutions, ask questions and better prepare for their future during a Transfer Madness fair. Transfer Madness will be Thursday, March 26 from 2 p.m. – 8 p.m. EST (1 p.m. – 7 p.m. CDT).

The Aspen Institute announced today that West Kentucky Community & Technical College (WKCTC) in Paducah, Kentucky is a Finalist-with-Distinction for the 2015 Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence. Selected from 1,123 community colleges nationwide, this is the second time WKCTC has been awarded this honor along with $100,000 in Prize funds to support its programs.

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0:03to do the job for the future and quite frankly we needed them yesterday
0:08Kentucky pain is a great partnership for Kentucky
0:13it brings together manufacturers
0:16the education community and students to be able to promote manufacturing
0:20and the jobs and careers that are there for manufacture
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0:39but also will help bring new industry and because they'll
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0:46they're investing their training they're doing things like that manufacturing
0:50date in the work force
0:51we are promoting ourself as aid
0:54major place for manufacturing and be able to do that you have to have a
0:58trained workforce
0:59Kentucky fame shows manufacturers that make me want to relocate here are
1:04manufacturers who want to expand here
1:06that we can provide that trained workforce for them
1:09and have them working from day one
1:12the benefit for students is that they can go to class
1:15two days a week and then go to work three days a week and they're getting
1:19paid
1:20to apply what they're learning Kentucky fame is given me the opportunity
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1:42this career path to get there Kentucky fame has enable me to have the
1:46confidence I need to be able to have a job after I get outta college right now
1:50I'm on the track and being debt-free
1:52coming out of college which not many college students get to say
1:56that's why they get thanks to you about the degree we have its multi-skilled
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2:33and even to be trained and that's what you see on this campus is
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